Happy Friday kids! I've been digging this new track from Akron/Family called "Samurai". It's off of their new album, Sub Verses. The instruments on this song are so lush and beautiful, a reverb-drenched landscape to get totally lost in. Even without the lyrics I would be listening to this on repeat. But the words are great too, sung from the perspective of a samurai who seems to be as ...
I started my post-holiday week with the new Hiss Golden Messenger album, Haw, which is pretty fitting with all of its biblical references. Hiss Golden Messenger is known for this, as well as a blend of traditional country, folk, gospel, soul, rock, and other American-born genres (all of which with their own histories with biblical references). They're all mixed up together and reformed in songwriter M.C. Taylor's singular voice, ...
Whoa, just heard this remix by producer/DJ/musician Ari Why of the ever-classic "Once In A Lifetime" by the Talking Heads. Loving it!! He takes one little ominous line from the original version, "Here comes the twister", and turns it into the backbone for a whole new dark and brooding lanscape. In the original song, David Byrne sounds like a man stumbling through life. In Ari Why's version, he's ...
SXSW-goers! We've got another band for you to see this year: Pow Wow! from New York City. Their debut full-length album, Don't Stop To Look was released in late 2012, and they're gearing up to promote it far from their northeastern home. They have a string of shows at SXSW this year, so there's plenty of opportunities to check them out. Don't Stop To Look is a catchy little record, and "...
Happy Friday!! There's a lot to be excited about today! The weekend, for starters. But also, festival lineups have been trickling out, favorite musicians are announcing tours, and the list of new records that we're anxiously waiting for continues to grow. We are here, sitting on the edges of our seats, eyes wide, ears ready! Which brings us to Futurebirds. We are sooooo stoked that Baba Yaga, a new album ...
Oh, winter. Every year I try and brave the cold and resist hibernation, and every year I fail. You know it's damn cold when you can no longer venture into the outside world without brain freezes and fits of spontaneous cursing. So instead, I've been holed up under a pile of blankets listening to this little gem: "Broken Eyes" is a lovely acoustic song by Two Gallants, a band that ...
Earlier in the week I stumbled upon a Facebook post from Strand of Oaks mentioning that some new songs are in the works... awesome! I can't get enough of the last record and am looking forward to more! Timothy Showalter / Strand of Oaks released Dark Shores last year. It's a brooding album that seems to have one foot in sic-fi and another in Americana, a strange combination that works well ...
Sitting here.. going through the lineup for SXSW 2013.. deciding whether or not I should take my boyfriend up on his offer to take me this year and stay with friends so I don't have to miss my favorite event of the year -- I'd be crazy not to, I know.... I have started searching through the lists of artists, looking up bands I am not familiar with personally. This is ...
Download: White Violet: Lays Around Lazy
Okay, now that I've managed to stop hyperventilating about the news that David Bowie is releasing a new record in March, I'm going to share something that's not at all related. I'm bugging out too much for clear thoughts on that subject, and more than likely you've been inundated with this news already. We'll come back to Bowie later... Instead, I'm going to discuss another slender singer/songwriter of a ...
You really want to turn up your volume now... maybe slip on your oversized bass filling headphones.. whatever you need to do to get the full experience of this track.. Holy shit. L.A. based artist known as Seven Lions brings us a little Progstep (Progessive Dubstep) with his new deep mix of his track "Isis" from the EP Polarized. His work on this track will transport you, taking you ...
Download: Seven Lions: Isis (Deep Mix)